Sec. Donley On Readiness: Air Force Must Shrink Or Go Hollow — EXCLUSIVE
Michael Donley is Secretary of the Air Force. This is the third of four op-eds Sec. Donley wrote exclusively for Breaking Defense on the future of the Air Force. Today’s piece deals with the difficult...
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F-35: Sequester May Cost Air Force 5 More F-35As; Air Guard, Modernization At...
ARLINGTON: “I don’t have the exact number yet,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton said Tuesday, but to pay the bill for sequestration, the service might have to cut its fiscal 2013 procurements by...
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Active vs. Guard: An Avoidable Pentagon War
WASHINGTON: Last year, the US Air Force fell face-first onto a buzzsaw when it proposed dramatic cuts to the Air National Guard, whose supporters raised a storm of protest in the Congress. Now there...
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‘The Dialogue’s Never Been Better’ With Army, Air Force, Says National Guard...
WASHINGTON: Gen. Frank Grass, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, seemed pretty chipper this morning over breakfast. That’s something you would not have seen from the Guard’s leadership the last...
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Gen. Grass: Budget Deal Gives Guard, Army Time To Compromise
As budgets tighten, will the National Guard and the regular Army go to war? Not if Gen. Frank Grass, chief of the National Guard Bureau, can help it. Peppered with questions about the conflict today at...
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National Guard Fights For Cyber Role In 2015 Budget
Chinese and Russian hackers have everybody running scared. So whatever else happens with the president’s budget request for fiscal year 2015, we know it will include more money for things cyber, from...
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NGAUS Head Knocks Senior Pentagon Leaders On Army Budget Battle
CAPITOL HILL: When the armed services come here to make their case to Congress, the Army tends to be the elephant: huge, grey, and kind of clumsy. But this year, as the regular Army heads into what...
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Why Congress May Let Air Force Retire The A-10
CAPITOL HILL: Aside from Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the reaction from Capitol Hill to the Air Force plan for retiring the ugly and beloved A-10 has been relatively muted and may remain so. Why would Congress,...
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Who’s Right On C-130 AMP: The Congressman Or Air Force Lawyers?
UPDATED: Corrects Cost Per Plane To $3.8M; Holmes “Misspoke;” Adds Enhanced Mode S Upgrade CAPITOL HILL: The law is the law. But the law must be written and it must then be interpreted in practice. Ay,...
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Top 25 Cuts To NDAA: $5B In Fuel, People, Readiness, & Weapons Detailed
WASHINGTON: The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have found the $5 billion in cuts required under the budget deal. As HASC chairman Mac Thornberry promised, some of them are painful. The...
View ArticleAir National Guard Units Interested In V-22 Osprey
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) isn’t just wooing foreign customers for the V-22 Osprey. Deputy Program Manager Scott Hite revealed here Thursday that NAVAIR has also...
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DIUX Lite: Carter Announces New Innovation Unit In Austin
UPDATED: Adds Carter & Kirchhoff remarks AUSTIN: Today, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will announce the latest location for his Defense Innovation Unit (Experimental) — but DIUX Austin will be...
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National Guard Wants To Deploy More Alongside Army: NGB Chief Lengyel
WASHINGTON: In stark contrast to past disputes, the head of the National Guard Bureau took pains today to praise the Army Chief of Staff for bringing full-time and part-time troops together. In...
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New & Old NGAUS Leaders Say Active-Guard Relations Better, But…
WASHINGTON: “Trust, but verify.” On Gus Hargett’s last day at the National Guard Association of the United States, that’s the advice the long-time NGAUS president gave his successor, Roy Robinson, on...
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Gen. Grass: Budget Deal Gives Guard, Army Time To Compromise
As budgets tighten, will the National Guard and the regular Army go to war? Not if Gen. Frank Grass, chief of the National Guard Bureau, can help it. Peppered with questions about the conflict today at...
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National Guard Fights For Cyber Role In 2015 Budget
Chinese and Russian hackers have everybody running scared. So whatever else happens with the president’s budget request for fiscal year 2015, we know it will include more money for things cyber, from...
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NGAUS Head Knocks Senior Pentagon Leaders On Army Budget Battle
CAPITOL HILL: When the armed services come here to make their case to Congress, the Army tends to be the elephant: huge, grey, and kind of clumsy. But this year, as the regular Army heads into what...
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Why Congress May Let Air Force Retire The A-10
CAPITOL HILL: Aside from Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the reaction from Capitol Hill to the Air Force plan for retiring the ugly and beloved A-10 has been relatively muted and may remain so. Why would Congress,...
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Who’s Right On C-130 AMP: The Congressman Or Air Force Lawyers?
UPDATED: Corrects Cost Per Plane To $3.8M; Holmes “Misspoke;” Adds Enhanced Mode S Upgrade CAPITOL HILL: The law is the law. But the law must be written and it must then be interpreted in practice. Ay,...
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Top 25 Cuts To NDAA: $5B In Fuel, People, Readiness, & Weapons Detailed
WASHINGTON: The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have found the $5 billion in cuts required under the budget deal. As HASC chairman Mac Thornberry promised, some of them are painful. The...
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